The Nightingale By Kristin Hannah Summary
To say the least, it was not hard to figure why Kristin Hannah’s novel that detailed how two sisters dealt with the Nazis Occupation won so many awards. Hannah crafted a masterpiece from the words spilled on the cream pages. The author displayed so elegantly and tearfully the elements of forbidden attractions, tragic deaths, and horrid atrocities in her novel. In addition to reliving the events of an occupied frame through the eyes of a young Vianne, the reader also is granted the experience of seeing the world through an aged Vianne. “The Nightingale has sung”(Hannah). Indeed, it was a sorrowful, yet contained aspects of triumph in its melody.
In my opinion, it was safe to say that the frame of the “unknown” narrator was quite intriguing. Uniquely, Hannah wove into her novel a perspective from Vianne, as the reader later on concurred. Sadly, the older Vianne only cut briefly into the storyline from time to time. Although that might be true, Hannah managed to say so much, in so little. Indeed, this surprising frame was able to add another intricate layer to the already wondrous plotline. In my opinion, …show more content…
It just so happened that Vianne’s frame from the future delivered exactly the correct amount of mystery the reader potentially longed for. Right off the back, the reader is drawn to the mystery aspect when the “unnamed” narrator’s son asked who Juliette Gervaise was”(Hannah, p. 4). Instantly, questions popped into one’s mind, most echoing what the son desired to know. In addition, the reader was immersed into the novel’s mystery when the future Vianne referred to the “secret she kept, the man she killed, and the one she should have” (Hannah, p. 146). Once again, the reader’s scramble to figure out how the notions from the future, connected with the events from the past. Soon enough, throughout the storyline, those connections from the shadows are drawn to the
In my opinion, it was safe to say that the frame of the “unknown” narrator was quite intriguing. Uniquely, Hannah wove into her novel a perspective from Vianne, as the reader later on concurred. Sadly, the older Vianne only cut briefly into the storyline from time to time. Although that might be true, Hannah managed to say so much, in so little. Indeed, this surprising frame was able to add another intricate layer to the already wondrous plotline. In my opinion, …show more content…
It just so happened that Vianne’s frame from the future delivered exactly the correct amount of mystery the reader potentially longed for. Right off the back, the reader is drawn to the mystery aspect when the “unnamed” narrator’s son asked who Juliette Gervaise was”(Hannah, p. 4). Instantly, questions popped into one’s mind, most echoing what the son desired to know. In addition, the reader was immersed into the novel’s mystery when the future Vianne referred to the “secret she kept, the man she killed, and the one she should have” (Hannah, p. 146). Once again, the reader’s scramble to figure out how the notions from the future, connected with the events from the past. Soon enough, throughout the storyline, those connections from the shadows are drawn to the